In celebration of NAIDOC Week, Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) is delighted to welcome Professor Tracey Bunda to deliver the third Dean's Lecture for 2022.

Date: Monday 4 July, 2022

Time: 5.30pm Refreshments + Registration | 6.00pm Lecture

Venue: Theatre Q230, Level 2, Kwong Lee Dow Building, 234 Queensberry Street, University of Melbourne

Topic: The Indigenous Call for Change: The Higher Education Response

"Indigenous peoples throughout the world know too well that acts of colonisation cannot be relegated to a historical moment of the past, to be left in the past. Acts of colonisation and their shifting contexts continue to have consequences for Indigenous peoples who have long engaged in resistance to colonisation at individual, institutional and ideological levels. In resistance, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have and continue to call for change.

This Address leans into the work of Indigenous scholars and writers such as Wilson(2008), Moreton-Robinson(2014), Dudgeon (2019), Huggins(2022) to frame the call for change through an Indigenous lens of relationality and the inherent responsibilities within this long-practised tradition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Through this lens, Indigenous calls for change through Reconciliation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and Treaty development currently undertaken by various states are brought into focus and considered for their agentic value in activating positive and sustained change for Indigenous peoples within the higher education sector. In turn, the presentation explores higher education’s capacity to respond effectively to these key documents, highlighting responsive models throughout the sector."

Professor Tracey Bunda is a Ngugi Wakka Wakka woman, Professor and Director of Academic Programs within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland. She has over three decades experience in senior leadership with strong emphasis on building the Indigenous sector through increased Indigenous student participation and success, teaching and research. Her research interests extend to Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous storying and Indigenous women’s wisdoms. She has recently been appointed to the Advance HE Australasian Strategic Advisory Board (ASAB). She is a Life Member of the Australian Association for Research Education. Her forthcoming co-authored book with Louise Phillips is Storying Activism (Springer).

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